Recent RNC touchiness about election fraud claims

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Sat May-07-05 02:16 PM
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Recent RNC touchiness about election fraud claims

Edited on Sat May-07-05 02:18 PM by TexasLawyer

This is an excerpt from a long letter that my elderly mother in Iowa received a few weeks ago from Ken Mehlman on behalf of the RNC. (The letter accompanied the "official CENSUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY" which asked some very scary questions like: "Do you support the use of air strikes against any country that offers safe harbor or aid to individuals or organizations committed to further attacks on America?" Iran, perhaps?!? )

My mother is a very well-mannered, genteel woman, but she forwarded Kenny-boy's letter to me with a note saying "Can you believe this Sh%$"? Mom is a life-long Democrat, so I have no clue why she received anything from the RNC.

One interesting aspect of the letter is its focus on the 2004 election. The RNC acknowledges that the results were razor-thin, and that switching a mere 60,000 votes in Ohio would have changed the results of the election.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Ken Mehlman
RNC Chairman

Senator Bill Frist
Majority Leader

Congressman Dennis Hastert
Speaker

Congressman Tom Delay
Majority Leader

Dear Fellow Republican,

You are among a select group of Republicans who have been chosen to take part in the official CENSUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

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Our margins are razor-thin. Liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate can still kill almost any legislation that President Bush proposes and they can stop his appointment of judicial nominees. So real reform depends on maintaining and extending our Republican majorities in the House and the Senate. not iust now. but over the next 10 years.

And that starts with including Republicans like you in formulating our BLUEPRINT, then identifying, educating and turning-out Republicans on Election Day.

The last three national elections have been extremely close. In 2002, we came within a few thousand votes of losing the House and Senate to the Democrats and liberal special interests.

And I don’t need to tell you how critical the get-out-the-vote effort was to our Party in 2004, when President George W. Bush won re-election by just 3%.

New Hampshire was decided by just 9,171 votes; Wisconsin by 11,813 votes and Pennsylvania by 128,869 votes out of 5,676,212 votes cast in the keystone state. In fact, if 60,000 votes had gone the other way in Ohio in 2004 . . . John Kerry would be President today.

That’s why your REPUBLICAN PARTY CENSUS DOCUMENT is so important.

It all comes down to old-fashioned methods of grassroots contact - phone calls, door-to-door canvassing, postcards and letters to likely Republicans.

Believe me, the Democrat Party is angry. The radical liberals are once again screaming that Republicans stole the election. And if you look at the facts, the Democrats set voter turnout records and fundraising records in 2004 as well.

There is no question, the Democrats will be back with a vengeance. And historically the party in the White House loses seats in Congress in the off year. So you can bet the Democrats will be rejuvenating their deflated base for 2006 and for the 2008 presidential campaign.

And liberal special interest groups like People for the American Way, the Trial Lawyers and MoveOn.org, emboldened by their influence in 2004, are already filling their campaign coffers for 2006. Republican candidates at all levels will need the RNC’s help.

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The entire letter and "Official CENSUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY" is posted here:

http://bannister.us/weblog/on/2005/02/24/census-of-the-republican-party/